How to change taxes

Memo to Arkansas legislators

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 3:54 a.m.

NOW THAT the Arkansas legislature has a Republican majority in both houses for the first time in more than a century, the odds are taxes will be cut. What’s more, a Democratic governor has already proposed reducing the state’s sales tax on groceries, long known as The Shame of Arkansas, from 1.5 percent to an eighth of a percent.